Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The White Paper on Defence sets the defence policy agenda over a ten year planning horizon and covers all aspects of defence within overall security policy. Since publication of the White Paper, a total of 95 separate projects have been identified for completion over a ten-year period. Project and Programme Management Governance arrangements were put in place to monitor the ongoing status of individual projects and to review the scope of projects within the programme.

Project 88 is one of these projects and it's objective is to place defence funding on a sustainable multi-annual footing in a way that captures expected long term costs and the unique nature of defence procurement, and that allows for step changes in provision.

Work on the project has been on-going through a joint Civil/Military project team and it is expected to complete this project in the first half of this year.